Peanuts & Corn Records

Peanuts & Corn is a Canadian independent record label, releasing hip hop recordings since 1994.[1] They have also been a distributor of Canadian hip hop releases since 2002.

History

Peanuts & Corn was founded in Brandon, Manitoba, by Rod Bailey AKA mcenroe.[2][3] The first recording to be produced under the label was The Space EP, created by mcenroe's band, Farm Fresh in 1994.[4]

The label has since relocated first Winnipeg, Manitoba, and later Vancouver, British Columbia, where it is now based.[5] One of the most actively involved artists at Peanuts & Corn has been Pip Skid, who has also gone by the name of Wicked Nut.[6]

By 2004 Peanuts & Corn, along with its sister company Breadwinner Music Group, was producing and releasing tracks and albums for a number of artists in the Canadian hip hop music scene,[7][8] As of 2010 there had been about 40 releases on Peanuts & Corn, and more on affiliated and subsidiary labels throughout Canada and internationally.[9]

Artists with releases on P&C

• mcenroe
• Pip Skid[10]
• John Smith[11]
• Gruf the Druid
• DJ Hunnicutt
• Birdapres[12]
• Yy
• The Gallivanting Spoof
• DJ Moves
• Fermented Reptile (Gruf the Druid, and Wicked Nut)
• Parklike Setting (DJ Hunnicutt, mcenroe, and John Smith)
• Farm Fresh (DJ Hunnicutt, mcenroe, and Wicked Nut)[13]
• Break Bread (mcenroe, Pipi Skid, John Smith, Gruf, DJ Hunnicutt and Yy)

P&C imprints and affiliations

• Camobear Records
• Clothes Horse Records
• First Things First
• Foultone Records
• Frek Sho
• Fried Chicken Productions
• Futility Records
• Goodnight Musics
• Hand'Solo Records
• Low Pressure Productions
• Plague Language Records
• Sound Barrier Recordings
• Your Brother Records

See also

• List of record labels

References

1. Breaking Bread with Peanuts & Corn. Exclaim!, November 2001.
2. Wishahouse: Great white Northerner never-weres make a mountain out of a prole hill Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine. The Village Voice, August 30, 2005.
3. Holy crap! Nuts and corn Archived 2005-11-14 at the Wayback Machine Gauntlet, March 24, 2005 by Nolan Lewis,University of Calgary. Archived at the Wayback Machine.
4. "Label Life: Peanuts & Corn". Exclaim!, Archived at the Wayback Machine
5. "A Winter Harvest". Uptown, Archived 2009-03-23 at the Wayback Machine Archived at the Wayback Machine
6. "Skid makes his mark". Now Magazine, by Jason Richards, September 29, 2005.
7. Label Life: Peanuts & Corn. Exclaim!, September 2005.
8. "Breaking Out". Georgia Strait, by Martin Turenne on February 26th, 2004
9. "Foultone Records Presents: Pip Skid [PSA + Audio]" Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine. Hip Hop Canada, Mar 12th, 2010
10. "Pip Skid Skid Row". Exclaim!, By Thomas Quinlan. Apr 24, 2010
11. "John Smith – Pinky’s Laundromat (Peanuts & Corn / 29)". Debug, 27.8.2004
12. "Birdapres Nothing Is Cool (with Mcenroe)". Tiny Mixtapes
13. Peanuts & Corn Records". Stylus, APRIL — MAY 2016 Issue . Harrison Samphir.